Lyman Frank Baum frasi celebri
dalla premessa a Il Magico Monarca di Mo; citato in Renato Gorgoni, nota introduttiva a L. Frank Baum, Il mago di Oz, Rizzoli, 1978, p. 15
Lyman Frank Baum: Frasi in inglese
“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
Origine: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.”
Origine: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
“As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.”
Origine: The Marvelous Land of Oz
“To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.”
Origine: The Marvelous Land of Oz
“But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”
Origine: The Marvelous Land of Oz
“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.”
Origine: Rinkitink in Oz
“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
Origine: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Origine: Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317
Letters and essays
Contesto: When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
this is a line spoken by Frank Morgan's depiction of the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film, which debuted 20 years after Baum's death. It did not actually appear in the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The ending of "Steam Engines of Oz" wrongly attributes this phrase to Baum when it would've originated from the 1939 adaptation script writers Langley/Ryerson/Woolf.
Misattributed
Variante: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others
Origine: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Origine: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Contesto: The Scarecrow listened carefully, and said, "I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas."
"That is because you have no brains" answered the girl. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home."
The Scarecrow sighed.
"Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains."
Origine: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
"The Wond'rous Wise Man", in Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
Short stories
Saturday Pioneer (20 December 1890)
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (1890 and 1891)
Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Contesto: There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken. Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz — the one who lives in the West.
